Why SolidWorks DXF Export Settings Don't Persist — And the API Fix That Makes Them Stick
You spend ten minutes configuring the DXF export dialog — turning on bend lines, setting the layer map, choosing which sketch entities to include. You close SolidWorks. You open it the next morning and every checkbox is back to the default. Again. This is one of the most reliably frustrating behaviors in SolidWorks, and it has a specific technical reason that most documentation skips over. More importantly, there are three concrete fixes — ranging from a template trick to a four-line API call — that eliminate the problem entirely. ...